Le Tour 2018 stage 19:Lourdes - Laruns 200,5km

[Forever The Best]

Death, taxes and LottoNL having abysmal tactics as usual.

 

[infeXio]

Oh how one could wish that Lotto would just have the balls to challenge Sky rather than help them in an attempt to secure a podium.. baah

 

[Red Rick]

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LottoNL is pathetic.

Roglic isn't going for the win, people have to accept different teams have different motives. A podium is still a great result.

They literally had nothing to lose by letting Kruijswijk react to Landa

 

[bigcog]

G looks a bit bothered

 

[Forever The Best]

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LottoNL is pathetic.

Roglic isn't going for the win, people have to accept different teams have different motives. A podium is still a great result.

Krusiwijk could have gone with Landa for that.

 

[memyselfandI]

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Imagine how much more exciting this race would be if Thomas only had one, or even two, domestiques instead of five.

Only him or other teams too....? :lol:

 

[Simurgh]

Truly a nice guy, amador. Heartwarming

 

[markene2]

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G looks a bit bothered

I think so too

 

[thrawn]

Amador casually offering food to everyone. What a guy.

 

[Brullnux]

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why the **** is Lotto doing Sky's work for them ?

does Sir Dave get on the and offer cash for the support ?

Put yourself in the Lotto DS' shoes. You have a rider 6s off the podium. Now a rider, who isn't as good of a TTer, granted, but can still perhaps come good or gain more time, potentially a minute and half in front of you. Do you a) hope sky pull him back, even if he isn't a threat to the win unless he's 1 mins ahead or b) work and make sure he doesn't take your place. I'm surprised they're only working now.

 

[Red Rick]

And the Dutch commentators are soo happy with every tactical decision Kruijswijk and Roglic make. I swear Kruijswijk could stab one and receive praise from the other.

 

[Red Rick]

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why the **** is Lotto doing Sky's work for them ?

does Sir Dave get on the and offer cash for the support ?

Put yourself in the Lotto DS' shoes. You have a rider 6s off the podium. Now a rider, who isn't as good of a TTer, granted, but can still perhaps come good or gain more time, potentially a minute and half in front of you. Do you a) hope sky pull him back, even if he isn't a threat to the win unless he's 1 mins ahead or b) work and make sure he doesn't take your place. I'm surprised they're only working now.

Sorry would've been too busy hanging by head in shame after the disaster that was the Tourmalet tactics.

Kruijswijk would've been in virtual 2nd, with maximum pressure on Sky.

 

[Brullnux]

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LottoNL is pathetic.

Roglic isn't going for the win, people have to accept different teams have different motives. A podium is still a great result.

They literally had nothing to lose by letting Kruijswijk react to Landa

Agreed; but they don't have him there. So now objectively the best thing to do is work.

They *** up earlier and are trying to salvage it now. Annoying but understandable

 

[Rollthedice]

Gesink is saving the whales.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

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Poor from Majka

Majka has no reason to work.

Yeah, he’s a hilarious shirker in almost all circumstances but he’d need to have been lobotomised to work in these ones.

 

[bob.a.feet]

If Thomas cracks there would be a really interesting situation

 

[bigcog]

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If Thomas cracks there would be a really interesting situation

If that happens they have to set Froome free :lol:

 

[ice&fire]

Movistar didn't have the legs in the Alps and LottoNL doesn't have the brain in the Pyrenees

 

[red zone]

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why the **** is Lotto doing Sky's work for them ?

does Sir Dave get on the and offer cash for the support ?

Put yourself in the Lotto DS' shoes. You have a rider 6s off the podium. Now a rider, who isn't as good of a TTer, granted, but can still perhaps come good or gain more time, potentially a minute and half in front of you. Do you a) hope sky pull him back, even if he isn't a threat to the win unless he's 1 mins ahead or b) work and make sure he doesn't take your place. I'm surprised they're only working now.

Sky has 2 people on the podium including the race leader , the onus is on them to pull the breakaway back and which will also help lotto .

all lotto is doing now is saving Sky's dom's when they could be saving there's by letting Sky burn themselves out

also wouldn't it be smarter to sit back and hopefully Froome has to work and maybe crack dropping down the standings ?

there's no upside to this for Lotto outside of maybe Sky offering cash for help

 

[memyselfandI]

THE mountain goat Warren Barguil..

 

[Frosty]

Castro gone. Poels 3 minutes back apparently which will be tough for even him to make a recovery from

 

[Red Rick]

Castro roasted.

*Imagines Kruijswijk in Landa move even harder*

 

[vcampbell]

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If Thomas cracks there would be a really interesting situation

If that happens they have to set Froome free :lol:

Less than 80 km, so it wont work.

 

[Rollthedice]

Little Richie Castro is done at last.

 

[loge1884]

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According to Thijs Zonneveld, Sagan and his Bora buddies usually try to make mountain stages fun by doing little descending matches, which is where it went wrong.

wasn't Sagan just behind the "GC group" when the accident happened? ... so there must have been quite some cars and traffic around ... would not be the safest place to do some antics - don't think even he would be that crazy ...